I am indeed getting the few that were iffy for CPU bottlenecking this week. Spiderman games with RT mostly. Halo Reach is fixed, plays great. I'll edit that in and add Halo 2 Anniversary which is okay but not great. Get some micro stutter that shows up on the frame time graph as well. Fully playable but unacceptable for an old game.Time to try all the games where you felt the slightest hitch before
I would put it on a FAT32 RAMDRIVE created with IMDISK.OG Crysis is fixed now. 1080 full screen max settings is high refresh territory. It hitches a bit which is annoying, but it's still so much better than the last time I tested it.
I am not getting that far off in the weeds. Hell, dropping DXVK files into game folders is almost too far to be going in my testing. What I mean is; ARC is shipping in consumer PCs and devices. If it doesn't work with minimal or no user intervention it has failed in those titles. At least until if or when drivers correct it. Considering the state of the game last time I tested it, it is still miles better. I grade it a B now, where as before it was a C- meaning barely passing.I would put it on a FAT32 RAMDRIVE created with IMDISK.
To rule out the unlikely case that the hitching is caused by something to do with I/O.
Sure hit me up with some game codes.Any chance you could try these?
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (if the above fails, you could try the version of CoR:EfBB bundled with this one)
No One Live Forever 1 and 2
Oni
Umm...they are all abandonwareSure hit me up with some game codes.
Legit links for them? Or is it grey area stuff?Umm...they are all abandonware
http://nolfrevival.tk/ for NOLF (they say the rights holders don't give a frick).Legit links for them? Or is it grey area stuff?
Toasty Bros build a "cheapest new gaming PC" with an i3-12100F and an Intel ARC A380 card. Some gameplay sequences / benchmarks partway through. Pretty decent, on contemporary games.
For an extreme budget build? 12100 is no slouch, no matter if you wish to label it a"mere" 4C/8T. The IPC uplift from 12th-Gen/Alder Lake P-Cores, means that this 4C/8T CPU competes favorably (for games) with AMD 6C/12T CPUs like the 4500 and 5500. (Again, for GAMES, not Cinebench.)I didn't watch anything after that. But recommending a 4C/8T these days? Battlefield 1 in 2016 benefitted from a 6 core. I know you are into budget builds, but this just sounds like terrible advice.
The 12100 is almost maxed out in Fortnite in their gameplay. I wonder if discord and windows being windows would overload it there? They picked a board so bad that any upgrade path to a significantly faster CPU is almost non existent. It doesn't even have an m.2 slot for flying spaghetti monster's sake. The PSU that came with the case is a potential IED. Horrible build.For an extreme budget build? 12100 is no slouch, no matter if you wish to label it a"mere" 4C/8T. The IPC uplift from 12th-Gen/Alder Lake P-Cores, means that this 4C/8T CPU competes favorably (for games) with AMD 6C/12T CPUs like the 4500 and 5500. (Again, for GAMES, not Cinebench.)
It's not your father's i7-6700.
Anyways, I wasn't trying to pimp the build vid, only to point out that it contained ARC A380 gameplay vids partway through. This being the ARC thread, I thought someone might be interested.
Nonsense. Stop spreading FUD. It competes well with the other ultra budget gaming cards like the GTX 1650 that so many still use.The A380 is not a gaming card at all. It's an encoding card.
Added this update to OP.
Dying Light added. Probably just my imagination/placebo effect but everything feels better? smoother? with the 3D CPU upgrade.
It's like that old Lays potato chip commercial - "You can't eat just one." I have 2 5800X3Ds and a 5600X3D now. 😁The magic of the 3D chip, IMO. Not really great at anything but making games run like butter.
It should help in cache sensitive apps, especially when multitasking and using other applications. However, it's not easy to identify such applications. Maybe a professional developer among us can shed some light? I know compilation benefits. Virtualization with multiple VMs should also be smoother. Browsing? Maybe. We just don't have good benchmarks to highlight the actual impact of V-cache. However, if you go see benchmarks on Phoronix, there are quite a few cases there where even the slower eDRAM on Broadwell and later Intel chips results in massive speed boosts.The magic of the 3D chip, IMO. Not really great at anything but making games run like butter.
The 12100 is almost maxed out in Fortnite in their gameplay. I wonder if discord and windows being windows would overload it there? They picked a board so bad that any upgrade path to a significantly faster CPU is almost non existent. It doesn't even have an m.2 slot for flying spaghetti monster's sake. The PSU that came with the case is a potential IED. Horrible build.